Editor | On 01, Jan 2010

Message: 487
Posted by: Kellie C.
Posted on: Saturday, 21st April 2007

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there's a tendency to think of innovation as always a good thing, but it has its drawbacks. it can go past moral boundaries – human cloning is a pretty prominent example.

and it can create a whole new world of problems that didn't exist before. think about the soldiers who are injured in wars today. if they are hurt, they have a greater chance of survival on the battlefield, but now they come home with these horrific injuries and medicine and systems arenot in place to help them.

i do not have a question. just get tired of seeing innovation always mentioned as a positive thing. it isn't.

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Message: 489
Posted by: InnovationColorado
Posted on: Saturday, 21st April 2007

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Kellie,

I appreciate your posting. Innovation, like a lot of other tools, needs good (worthy) direction / purpose / aim.

As Dr. Deming was fond of asking: “what is your aim?”

Deming also noted: “Aim and method are essential. An aim without a method is useless. A method without an aim is dangerous.”

… just my 2 cents worth …

Best regards,InnovationColorado

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Message: 492
Posted by: Kellie C.
Posted on: Monday, 23rd April 2007

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that's an interesting quote. what comes first-the chicken or the egg or method or aim?

and who is responsible for the aim? should there always be a designated “aim”er? someone who makes sure that the method and aim don't surprass eachother?

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Message: 494
Posted by: Mike Carnell
Posted on: Monday, 23rd April 2007

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Kellie C,

The Leadership team, generally the “C” level positions are the persons who set direction for a company. They set the vision and the strategies operationalize that vision. Anything that doesn't support that vision will rarely get resourced because as the strategy flows down the APR targets and bonus structure flows up.

There are cases where the unguideed innovation process wanders off on tangents that the business has little or no interest in. The result is the company takes steps that are probably more detrimental to the innovation process than if they had spent time funneling the innovation in directions they want it to go. To often the innovation process is treated as some Faberge egg with everone trying to be the concerned advicate of not killing the creative spirit. If you look at Edison who was probably the best the US ever produced at innovation/innvention he had a process and a team – there wasn't a lot of the technology and tools we use today but there was results.

Just my opinion.

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Message: 2910
Posted by: kerri
Posted on: Thursday, 17th November 2011

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chicke, as there would be nothing to keep the egg warm.

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